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Bug 676388 - [pitivi] Support the notion of placeholder/empty clips and allow manually swapping clips
[pitivi] Support the notion of placeholder/empty clips and allow manually swa...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-editing-services
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
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Reported: 2012-05-19 20:57 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2018-11-03 12:51 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-05-19 20:57:46 UTC 
Let's say we have a project with clips A, B, C, that are all in the source list (pitivi's media library) and in the timeline.

For some reason, clip B is temporarily unavailable on the hard drive or the user has deleted it.

AFAICT, currently there is no mechanism to handle this; either the project loads fully with all related media, or it fails completely.

Ideally, we should allow loading a project and, if the user cannot immediately provide a replacement for the missing clip "B", tell the application that this clip B is to be considered a placeholder. Then, the application could show it as such in its media library and in the timeline.

Later on, the user could either delete the placeholder or provide a replacement for it (ex: right click, -> "Replace clip...").
Comment 1 Edward Hervey 2018-05-06 08:36:20 UTC 
Is this still valid these days ?
Comment 2 Thibault Saunier 2018-05-09 12:37:22 UTC 
(In reply to Edward Hervey from comment #1)
> Is this still valid these days ?

Yes, it would be nice to have.
Comment 3 GStreamer system administrator 2018-11-03 12:51:42 UTC 
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